Another United Nations mockery and New Zealand’s hypocrisy
Many years ago, the Israeli statesman, Abba Eban, said "if Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flat... Read More...
UNHRC continues anti-Israel bias, ignores real violations, turns mandate on its head
The recent United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report that alleges "Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and hu... Read More...
New Zealand’s selective outrage raises questions of ideology
Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, famously said "New Zealand's foreign policy is trade" but New Zealand has recently condemned a huma... Read More...
New Zealand out of step with traditional allies at UN [again]
The speech from Ms Jillian Dempster, New Zealand’s permanent representative to the UN, at the 28th special session of the Human Rights Council was out... Read More...
Abusing the Holocaust
This year’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was at once illuminated and o... Read More...
United Nations Human Rights Council discriminates with proposed blacklist
In March, 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a proposal from the Palestinian Authority to create a “blacklist” of companies operat... Read More...
Eight questions for Ms Ardern and Mr Peters on the United Nations vote
Prime Minister Ardern and Foreign Minister Peters both stood by New Zealand’s decision to vote for a resolution that declared the recognition of Jerus... Read More...
Palestinian intransigence has a price too
Trump’s recent announcement to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, heralding his intention to move the embassy there from Tel Aviv, reminds ... Read More...